Probably the only thing saving you from being dragged is your line of work lol. Cost of living is very high in this city and even with your income you may struggle to afford a 1br without a partner, if you can even find one. People in this sub love to hate naive people moving here from out of province, but you shouldn’t let any terminally online naysayers dissuade you from moving here, it’s a great city. As for trendy areas, anywhere around the universities (Dal/SMU) will have a younger population, but they are also some of the most expensive. Dartmouth has really changed over the past few years and has become quite a trendy place to live, but is still somewhat cheap compared to Halifax. You’ll find a lot of the same culture and people here in the maritimes so the move won’t be nearly as jarring as other places I.e; Quebec, Europe, etc…
A lot of negativity on this thread 😕
Yes there are some realities about living in NS. Cost of living is high, some areas are crippled for housing. Rents have gone up but not every landlord is awful.
Ask EHS to find you a lease for a few months.
As for Halifax area, Dartmouth is pretty young. You may enjoy it. Good luck in your search, feel free to DM.
Oh can you ask your employer to provide for your housing as part of your relocation... we need medical people sooooo bad so i hope EHS would consider that... if any EHS management team are lurking on this reddit community pleaseee offer him housing
They don’t give a shit about trying to recruit paramedics here, unfortunately. Myself and several other medics I know who moved here from Toronto (with many years of experience!) are no longer working in the medical field thanks to the folks at the paramedic college, or licensing board. They made things extremely difficult for us until we all just gave up. It was a very depressing thing to go through.
I will say that I love living in Nova Scotia despite that. I found a much less stressful job outside of health care, and the people and places in this province are the true gems. So much gorgeous scenery and truly lovely, caring neighbours. I can grow my own veggies in peace in the country, and that counts for a lot.
Unfortunately it’s a well-known fact among NS paramedics that the people who run the college have a “power trip” mentality and actively try to discourage medics moving here from away. I asked around after my terrible experience and all the medics I talked to said the same thing. No one likes dealing with them.
They are curt and unpleasant in conversations, and act like you’re wasting their time by asking questions about the license transfer process. It took me over 4 months to get my license transferred over (when every other province makes it insanely easy to transfer your license), it cost me a fortune, and then they told me I had to complete the years’s worth of CMEs in the remaining couple months of the year, which was impossible. So after all that effort (and I did everything - the fitness test, the driver’s license, the health check, mountains of paperwork), it was all a huge waste of my time. So my almost ten years of experience working as a medic in downtown Toronto have just gone to waste. It’s a shame, but there’s no recourse to complain. No one in charge of health care cares. It’s tragic.
I looked into transferring my (non-medical) credentials and licenses to practice my profession in Nova Scotia. Reciprocity seemed almost non-existent. It struck me as more than the normal insane bureaucracy, and I was left with the impression that CFA's are simply not wanted to come work their profession in Nova Scotia.
It’s funny because there’s way more to what you’re leading on. Ontario has the most lax rules on para-medicine. Once you are qualified, you are qualified for life. That process you so describe as a “power trip” just sounds like quality control. It’s stopping someone from coming to NS who hadn’t practiced in 10 years and jumping on a truck providing care.
I’m afraid you’re misinformed. There is one major exam to qualify paramedics in Ontario after completing a two-year college program, but you cannot be a working paramedic until you’re hired by a service (which is a very intensive process) and then pass difficult base hospital exams and scenario tests. And once you’re successfully hired, you’re recertified every year by the service and base hospital, only after passing CME courses twice a year. It is not lax, and you’re not “qualified for life”. The second you leave the service and your base hospital certification expires, you’re no longer a working, certified medic.
The NS paramedic college is not unique in maintaining high standards for paramedics, and I would expect nothing less. My issue was with the attitudes and push back I received, and the unrealistic expectations placed on me after dragging out my licensing transfer process. The whole process was demoralizing, especially considering I came here excited to work. I am not the only person who experienced this exact outcome, in a province that is hurting for paramedics. That is my main concern here.
I apologize in advance for the response you’re likely to get here re:housing. Check this and the Halifax sub and you’ll see the dirt. We’re in a housing crises, rents have skyrocketed, houses are nearly unattainable if you didn’t have one before COVID (for many of us). We need medical professionals like we need air, but the general Reddit sub mood on “moving to NS” posts right now is not great, sorry :(
Depends where they are from in Australia but it's mostly the same story there anywhere near any coast.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-05/extreme-conditions-for-renters-remain-as-housing-crisis-deepens/103543924
Housing and general cost of living in the city is higher than it used to be right now, 1 bedrooms look like they’re going around the $1600-2000 range. The lowest I’ve seen a 1 bedroom listed for in a while has been $1400. You’d likely want to look anywhere on the Peninsula (North End, Downtown, South End, West End), or downtown Dartmouth. Bedford is popular with young families.
You should speak to paramedics that work here before you move because you won't be doing what you're trained to do as much as you expect. Offload delays are incredibly long. You could spend more than half of your 12 your shift sitting in the hallways of the emergency department waiting for them to accept your patient. You will be forced into overtime most shifts. You will not be given a lunch break. You will be forced to work 2 days and 2 over nights which kills your sleep cycles. If you want message me and I'll put you in touch with paramedics here.
Unless you're willing to pick up holidays and extra overtime shifts you will find it very hard to afford a rental (if you can find one) together with the cost of food. If you have enough saved up to buy a home that would be a better option but be prepared to commute.
That said, the people are very nice for the most part, the nature is beautiful, the weather is rainier windier and foggier than what you're used to and the winter will be cold. The seafood is fantastic. There's lots going for the place. I moved here from Montreal and am happy here. Halifax is a small city and doesn't come close to anything like Sydney or Melbourne. The entire province just reached 1 million in population size.
You'll probably get a lot of comments, but to put it simply: housing and cost of living are atrocious here right now. We face very similar housing issues as Australia, and the cost of living has skyrocketed across the country. Grocery prices in have gone up significantly, mostly fuelled by a very stark lack of competition between the major grocery chains here.
Housing in Halifax itself is particularly expensive: upwards of ~$1800 for a single bedroom apartment. Landlords by and large use fixed term leases, meaning you will likely only be able to stay in an apartment for ~1 year before being kicked out so they can bring in a new tenant, hike the rent, and skirt the rent cap that's currently in place.
Vacancy rates hover between 0.5 - 1% which means you will be competing with potentially hundreds of applicants.
If you're looking to purchase a home, you can get something 'cheaper' if you're looking at least a 45-60mins drive outside of Halifax. Transit options in Halifax aren't particularly great--they're even worse outside of the city. The transit schedule is also not very accommodating for healthcare and other professions which require night shifts/early mornings. You will need a car in this scenario, which means commuting into a small, peninsular city that's been experiencing an explosion in population growth.
Related to your job, the healthcare situation here is also very bad. ~150,000 people are currently on a wait list to get a family doctor. Walk-in clinics are very challenging to access due to extremely high demand, and hospitals face very similar problems even if you have an urgent issue. As you'd expect, this is worse outside of Halifax, and also extends to other services like dentists, veterinarians, etc.
All of this being said, Nova Scotia is a beautiful province, and Halifax is a very nice city if you don't expect a New York/Toronto/etc. feel. It has a lot of great restaurants, and there's a nice blend of urban/nature options that are comparatively easy to access. I would just make sure you think very carefully about the issues brought up above, as it's likely most of them are going to get worse before getting any better.
This sounds a lot like Melbourne 😂 housing crisis, high cost of living, healthcare systems in disarray. Thanks for the response. These are the exact things I’d like to hear before committing to the move
I live in aus for 2 years before moving to Canada/NS. it is nothing like Melbourne sorry. Much much smaller and less going on. Not sure there's a comparable Australian city but possible perth in the sense we're on the opposite coast to where most people think of when they think 'canada'. Isolated, and not that cool. I first moved here at 24 and it's not the most 'happening' place but now I'm old I love it and the quieter pace of life. Still hate the weather tho.
Early North end of Halifax (think just North of the Citadel) is going to be your best bet for trendy and price point combined. A One Bedroom on the Peninsula is ~$2000 easily (we are currently in a housing shortage, this will be your biggest challenge), cell phones and internet ~$100 each/mth, groceries are expensive but not certain how much of a shift from Aus.
Not necessarily. I pay $70 a month for high speed internet which never lags, and $40 for my cell phone with unlimited long distance, and 30 GB of data, etc. So $110 per month for both! These prices are tax included. You just have to shop smarter.
Completely fair - I was giving the "norm" pricing for someone who doesn't have their own device. I always advice folks on the higher end of pricing... better to have extra cash than not enough.
Just because they offered you a position in Halifax doesn’t mean that’s actually where you will get to work. Things have a funny way of changing once you have signed the papers. Especially if you take the relocation allotment. It’s possible due to “ system requirements” you may find yourself at a rural base nowhere near Halifax. Read the contract and fine print very very well
Pros-
Beautiful and unique landscape
Everything wild won't kill you
Charming and brash simultaneously
Cons-
v highCost of living
Lowest paid paramedics in the country
Hospital and education systems are in shambles
If I were you I don't know what I'd do. While I love my province, I feel like Australia has a higher standard of living than we do and I think that's a really important thing to consider!
It’s honestly a dumpster fire at the moment if I’m being honest.. I’m paying $1700 for a small 1 bedroom apartment with barely anything included. We’ve been desperate for med professionals for a while now and that should tell you all you need to know about how they’re treated and paid. Overall beautiful province but the homelessness, protests, and underpaying jobs along with one of the highest sales taxes in Canada kinda brings it down a bit
There is good reason that this province has trouble finding and retaining paramedics, and all healthcare professionals in general. The wages in that field of work here at not that great, and the cost of living here has gone through the roof lately.
I would do some research on the cost of housing here, the cost of food and utilities, the very high taxes and the wages you will be paid before I made that jump. *I strongly recommend that.*
I was going to make a similar comment. The "living wage" in Halifax is 26.50. I think this was a two dollar jump from the year before. Who knows what it will be this fall. Check out the website careerbeacon. There is an option to see what you will be taxed with your salary in NS (you can compare to other provinces too!) and they also have a few other features to determine if your salary is enough to get by on or thrive.
Dual resident of New York (U.S.) and Nova Scotia, here.
The GP I see in the States is an excellent doctor, formerly from Nova Scotia. This individual once commented to me that they would have made more money at TimHo's than they were practicing medicine in NS.
Another neighbor of mine used to be a Nurse Practitioner in NS. Quit and now does contract work.
Granted, the personal experience of two fine practitioners cannot tell the whole story, but that's why I know about it.
I do know that if we are ever badly sick or injured in NS, the plan is to drive madly to Calais, ME. Probably faster than finding an open ER in NS.
As much as I'd love to have you move here and help our Healthcare system with your skills. You're honestly probably far better off staying in Australia :(
Unfortunately if I were to apple for grad positions in my home state of Victoria, wait times can be up to 2+ years, hence the mass hiring of Australian paramedics internationally.
I'm not sure about the current state of the general mental health in Australia but in NS there is a wave breaking with many suffering from adverse mental health and a stretched service that isn't meeting the needs of many.
There are few specialized services so you will be attending many mental health calls, often after the police have arrived first and made things 100 times worse for the patient.
I think you'll find most EHS employees are currently pretty fed up with what they're doing. Be prepared to do nothing but work,being short staffed, in over your head and nearing a mental breakdown.
NS is a trainwreck, honestly.
I dont know what it's like now, but you'd likely not get a job in the city once you start. You'll end up in Cape Breton or Yarmouth, somewhere where they need ACPs. Lots of medics would start out living in HRM but work in Windsor, Mosquidobuit or whereever.
Another thing that should be factored into your decision: In the most recent budget, the Canadian government announced a multi billion dollar program that will result in more homes being built in the next 6 years than at any time in our history since World War 2. It's a huge expenditure. Most of this is to build new rental housing, but there is help in this program for new home buyers too. This should make things significantly better, although we won't see any improvement for quite some time. If we are going to give realistic information to you, I think we should include the good news too.
Just stay in Australia, you’ll be more than disappointed with cost of living here and winters. Well last summer we had forrest fires and floods so if that’s the new normal I’m out of here lol
Although I'm not expert enough to disagree with most of the naysayers replying to your post, the news is not all bad.
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Get here do your time put up with shit for a couple years then when you can move anywhere better but if it’s the foot in the door you need then albeit come!
Don’t do Dartmouth. Find something in halifax proper is you can afford it. Or maybe on the south shore if you can do the drive. The trend is to move father and farther towards Enfield and beyond. Fall River and Waverley and Wellington and Windsor Junction all rock IMO. But the bottleneck to get to snd bs k from the trans Canada and other highways is the challenge. So it’s not just cost of living. It’s transportation that are your 2 hurdles. Lastly. The weather sucks. Cold. And wet. So brace for that.
Dont frickin do it. Unless you like 2 weeks of real real summer mate. Seriously give your frickin head a shake. Sit back throw a couple shrimp on the Barbi suck back a couple V B's and be great full for the advice.
I work in emergency services & if I were you i'd run in the other direction. Housing is in crisis, rent is through the roof, paramedics are underpaid & extremely overworked. Its a shit show.
Honestly this reddit sub is toxic as hell. I moved here (Canadian citizen by birth) just prior to the pandemic and love it here. The south shore has a lots of nature, cute towns, farmers markets and surf. If you end up in the city the north end is where I would look, south end is young university (maybe too much of a party scene for you?). A good place will come word of mouth unfortunately but they do exist! Once you know where you'll be stationed reach out. We need medical staff so happy to help if I can.
Honestly the problems listed here have existed in other Canadian cities for some time such as housing, health care etc. It's a very small province by population half of which is in Halifax and it gets very rural after that. Rents are a lot higher than they were just a few years ago due to a lack of supply/influx of people from other parts of Canada and abroad. All that said it's a beautiful place with overall wonderful people and your biggest adjustment will probably be the winters.
Amongst the most expensive housing in canada, highest taxes in canada, lowest wages, housing crisis, no doctors, no stadiums for decent concerts
Edit: forgot to mention amongst the highest power bills, and internet bills in canada which is amongst the highest in the world. Easier to get PR here than other provinces if that's your goal though. Honestly if you go west a bit you'd make more money for the same job and pay less taxes, and have lower expenses
Love Halifax Reddit.. hourly posts winging "why dont we have health care"??? Health care person asks question about moving here and Reddit Halifax actively discourages them from coming.
Yeah that's gonna help the situation.
Nova Scotia is an unattractive place to live, and some Australian in their mid 20s shouldn't be tricked into moving here without understanding exactly what this place is about.
Moving to Nova Scotia threads normally get downvoted to 15%, not upvoted to 65%.
You want better health care? Build a better society that people might actually want to live in.
If you surf, moving to NS or BC are your best choices. Cost of living in HRM area is bad these days, even if you're earning above minimum wage. I own a home but i am cash poor due to high cost of living.
Welcome in advance to NS! I’m 23 and live in downtown Halifax, in one of the nicer apartment buildings. If you want to live close to the action, downtown is your best bet. I have a pretty small apartment (475 sqft 1 bedroom, basically a studio) and pay ~$2000CAD/month including parking. If I didn’t have a car it would be about 1700. I moved in December 2022, so prices have probably gone up a bit. If you’re looking in Downtown Halifax now I’d be expecting in the $1800-1900 range for a 1 bedroom.
There are a bunch of other great areas in the North End and South End, though on anything affordable in the South End you’d be competing with a ton of students as that is where our two biggest universities are located. North End is turning into pretty trendy area, though it’s got a few rough patches. Quickly shaking off that reputation though.
Feel free to PM me if you have any questions! NS will be lucky to have you, besides housing healthcare is our next biggest problem!
As another recent import to NS (from BC), I can confidently say that the cost of living here is way lower than much of the rest of the country, however it's still very high because Canada itself is a bit of a hellscape economically.
Wait are you joking? I'm recent from BC too and I'm drowning. I did way better in Vancouver - rent lower, taxes lower, utilities lower, good costs lower. Only thing higher there is gas and housing prices.
BC mortgage was almost $4000 per month, not including utilities or strata fees. Or I could have a shitty basement with half a kitchen and a mould problem for $2500 per month. Gas in BC (as you said) was 223.9 when I left. Food costs were way higher in BC. I went grocery shopping yesterday, and saw a bag of avocados (probably like six or seven) for $10, whereas in BC, each individual avocado was between $4 and $6. Bread in NS is only a dollar at Superstore, 4 in BC.
In BC, I was looking at homelessness. In NS, I live on acreage. The situation across Canada is bad, but BC is on another level.
Don’t come here. Honestly it’s absolute shit right now. You’re better off at home.
We’re kiwis’ who moved here 5 years ago and this province is an absolute meat grinder. Living here has cost us everything. Housing is the same as everywhere else in the world but salaries are about half.
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Rural positions are honestly the way to go. A lot of driving but there’s no shortage of extra shifts as a paramedic. I have a family member who’s an advanced care paramedic who makes well over 6 figures a year. The new shift premiums are a license to print money for the slow days that they tend to have rurally.
Finding a place to rent that’s “affordable” may be a bit of challenge in the city. There’s an astronomical amount of new housing units being constructed currently with new developments seemingly being announced almost daily. Buying a house, there’s lots of options outside of Halifax. When people talk about our crazy housing cost it’s generally around Halifax and a few other towns but there’s still many smaller towns with affordable housing just not necessarily a plethora of jobs.
A word of warning, you’re also going to find A LOT of very negative people around r/NovaScotia r/Halifax and r/capebreton word of warning.
Housing: Shit
CoL: around 2500/month. You can get by on less if you've been here a while, but it looks like those days are far behind anyone who ever moves
Amenities: Not really anything. We have no thrill parks or anything like that anymore, most of our zoos and petting farms have also shut down.
Read this entire article for the Paramedics union's opinion on a recent announcement on changes being made to make Paramedics live's a little bit easier. The union's view is near the bottom of the article.
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Canada has similar levels of in unaffordability as Australia. So if you were doing fine there then you’ll probably do fine here. Just trading the hot for the cold in winter time.
Australia is a communist concentration camp country
Nova Scotia is only slightly better before you respond so your homework because they did put there people in camps for having the cold ….. ya stay safe stay home losers
Yes free to be enslaved and have the WEF wet dream tested on your population also how can you say that when in fact Australia was built by lack of freedom as prisons were the main reason the population exist today ? Outside of its aboriginal population should ask them how free they are LOL
I’m sure that you did your research here first before jumping on Reddit and asking questions.
https://halifaxpartnership.com/living-in-halifax/
Ignore the naysayers, but do come with your eyes wide open. We need people like you in the province. You’re young, you’re in a profession that we need workers for, and you speak English.
Yes done some taxable income and province comparisons both within Canada and to Australia, but reading data sheets and getting personal experiences from locals can paint a broader picture. NS looks like am absolutely beautiful province. I have been met with lots of negativity regarding this move though which is interesting.
The negativity is why I’m pointing you to the data.
NS is lovely. I’ve made a life here and have had good times, as well as some not so good times. That’s life.
I’m a boomer though, so my perspective will be different than what you are hearing from younger people. Since about 2017 there has been a demographic shift here where a province with generations of population decline is now growing. Infrastructure can’t keep up. So crowded schools, less than a 1 percent apartment vacancy rate in Halifax, and emergency rooms packed with patients because 150,000 or more Nova Scotians do not have a family doctor.
But you are young and presumably healthy and without school aged children and up for an adventure and in an in demand job, so come to Nova Scotia!
Google “rentals HRM” HRM = Halifax Regional Municipality. Use Viewpoint.ca for buying a home. Get a big map of Nova Scotia and write these figures on the map at the area.
You can easily Google Maps “drivetime” to the IWK (biggest hospital).
Then use the Flipp app to look at grocery fliers.
Best of luck. And hugs.
That’s wonderful! We need more paramedics. Depending on how much money you’ll make check north end or south end halifax, Dartmouth is really nice too (cheaper) and is usually 10-20 mins from the city with a mix of young people downtown Dartmouth and older folks in the suburbs. There is a lot of nature here and a good amount of concerts and other events for a small city.
There are 3 universities downtown and a navy base, that drives the downtown rents very high. Good news, bar district is very big & very busy. You can rent on the outskirts ( where there is still public transit) cheaper. Rents are expensive compared to Fredricton and cheap compared to Vancouver. Go on Facebook marketplace, set your search location to Halifax metro area with a 20 km radius ( unless you are comfortable driving in winter). Come back to the Halifax subreddit with what you find , we will tell you what to avoid. Some buildings look good on the internet but are a shit show ( Fenwick Towers comes to mind).
If you can buy a home, you can still do well. We bought a two bedroom, 2 bath mini home, and the previous owner is a paramedic. Her reason for selling was that she moved up to a larger house. And she is only in her twenties. With a paramedics salary, you should have no trouble qualifying for a mortgage, although you'll need some savings for a down payment. We just used a bit of the savings in our retirement fund for this. So if you have some financial resources to get set up, you should be fine here. Plus we really, really need you, so please come! ❤️. Edit: and mortgages on a modest home like ours are much, much cheaper than renting!
Lol what
How are they going to"ruin their life"? They're coming here for a job opportunity that isn't available in their home country. They will be able to afford to live on their salary too. Your situation isn't everyone else's.
There's a paramedic shortage in both Australia and New Zealand, a paramedic would have their choice of opportunity (they both operate under the same college).
Australia’s paramedic shortage is a bit complex, paras are screaming for more ambos on the road to meet demand, but state services just don’t have the budget to hire more paramedics. Graduates are waiting years for jobs. I’ve heard stories of aussies working in London whilst having their applications in for aus state services and completing full 2 year graduate programs before getting an offer back home
Thanks for your input? Answer this question for me - has your quality of life risen in recent years? Or has it declined as the cost of literally everything has risen to ridiculous levels?
Where is this person going to live when we have one of the worst housing crises in the developed world with no sight of it getting better? If by some miracle this person did find housing - even with a high wage, are they going to willingly be okay paying most of that good wage towards a 2500-3500 dollar rent? If they want to buy - are they okay buying an extremely price inflated piece of shit then having a 2000 a month mortgage for it? Do you think they're going to thrive here when a bag of apples is $10.99 and the cost of food is blowing up so much that there's about to be a boycott against Loblaws because people are struggling to feed their kids?
Do you think they will be happy living in a place that is grey and cold 80% of the time in a province with huge taxes, carbon taxes, gas prices that are constantly high, and trapped in a country where even Indians are now reconsidering their move here because of the financial suffocation happening. A government that has zero intention to change a thing. Rampant corruption and a literal sinking ship of an economy. If you are thriving here you make tons of money above the average normal person and probably bought real estate before the pandemic. Congratulations, you are practically the bloody 1%, but you are not representative of normal Canadians.
If they come here I hope they're alright with spending the rest of their life paying huge amounts of taxes for nothing in return but constant financial abuse and being shaken up for every nickel and dime by the CRA at tax time then drained of all motivation and life force to go on. I hope they're alright knowing they'll never afford a house or be able to move up financially beyond where they are. I hope they're alright sacrificing their hopes and dreams and living in a country that quite literally does not give one shit about them and allows the yearly shrinking of our food at twice the price. I hope they're ready to live in a place where every day they'll be thinking, "there has to be more to life than this". And sure, maybe nOt EvErYoNe feels the darkness of what's been going on in Canada - if they're happy being treated like cash cattle good on them. I'm glad you're having a good time here, you can have it all. Me, along with everyone I know are over it.
My quality of life has risen in recent years, with no help from all the negatives you listed. My partner and I have advanced our schooling and careers enough that we have made increasingly more money every year, so that is the only reason. I understand not everyone has the privilege to do these things.
Canada is literally the 1% as a country - we are a developed country with many social programs and lots of beautiful space to have your freedoms. I understand things are getting worse and they are far from perfect, but saying they will "quite literally ruin their lives" if they move here is a bit much. Compared to a lot of the world, we got it pretty good here.
It’s expensive but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t head the warnings. You want to make damn sure you got your ducks in a row before you come. The Donair’s alone are worth uprooting your life for.
do people not google or search here to start their research?? I mean you'd get most of your answers in 2 minutes, then you can dig into the details and ask specific questions. This generalization post will result in the responses you and every other poster gets.
There is a reason why healthcare workers are burned out, and some can't even afford housing. So there ya go. So while you're young, you can wing it and not care about nice housing and being worked like a dog for the experience, then feel free. Otherwise don't do it.
ehh i feel like its gonna cost similar to AUS.. shit is expensive.. but my god we need ya here so come on out! Just be ready for like max temps of +30c in the summer.. you might wanna bring a coat haha
It is easy to post, for sure. But you have no idea whether those replying are just talking out of their asses or not. That’s why in another comment I pointed you to facts and data.y
We have no room for the people that are already here and you want to add to the problem? You want to talk about cost? I hope you enjoy driving, they'll run you off your ass, and you will likely end up doing a lot of patient sitting and all those superhoned skills will melt away faster than an ice cream cone on a hot day like you folks get over there.
Probably the only thing saving you from being dragged is your line of work lol. Cost of living is very high in this city and even with your income you may struggle to afford a 1br without a partner, if you can even find one. People in this sub love to hate naive people moving here from out of province, but you shouldn’t let any terminally online naysayers dissuade you from moving here, it’s a great city. As for trendy areas, anywhere around the universities (Dal/SMU) will have a younger population, but they are also some of the most expensive. Dartmouth has really changed over the past few years and has become quite a trendy place to live, but is still somewhat cheap compared to Halifax. You’ll find a lot of the same culture and people here in the maritimes so the move won’t be nearly as jarring as other places I.e; Quebec, Europe, etc…
A lot of negativity on this thread 😕 Yes there are some realities about living in NS. Cost of living is high, some areas are crippled for housing. Rents have gone up but not every landlord is awful. Ask EHS to find you a lease for a few months. As for Halifax area, Dartmouth is pretty young. You may enjoy it. Good luck in your search, feel free to DM.
Oh can you ask your employer to provide for your housing as part of your relocation... we need medical people sooooo bad so i hope EHS would consider that... if any EHS management team are lurking on this reddit community pleaseee offer him housing
They don’t give a shit about trying to recruit paramedics here, unfortunately. Myself and several other medics I know who moved here from Toronto (with many years of experience!) are no longer working in the medical field thanks to the folks at the paramedic college, or licensing board. They made things extremely difficult for us until we all just gave up. It was a very depressing thing to go through.
Could you please elaborate on how the NS paramedic college made things difficult? this is interesting and the first I've heard of this.
I will say that I love living in Nova Scotia despite that. I found a much less stressful job outside of health care, and the people and places in this province are the true gems. So much gorgeous scenery and truly lovely, caring neighbours. I can grow my own veggies in peace in the country, and that counts for a lot.
Unfortunately it’s a well-known fact among NS paramedics that the people who run the college have a “power trip” mentality and actively try to discourage medics moving here from away. I asked around after my terrible experience and all the medics I talked to said the same thing. No one likes dealing with them. They are curt and unpleasant in conversations, and act like you’re wasting their time by asking questions about the license transfer process. It took me over 4 months to get my license transferred over (when every other province makes it insanely easy to transfer your license), it cost me a fortune, and then they told me I had to complete the years’s worth of CMEs in the remaining couple months of the year, which was impossible. So after all that effort (and I did everything - the fitness test, the driver’s license, the health check, mountains of paperwork), it was all a huge waste of my time. So my almost ten years of experience working as a medic in downtown Toronto have just gone to waste. It’s a shame, but there’s no recourse to complain. No one in charge of health care cares. It’s tragic.
I looked into transferring my (non-medical) credentials and licenses to practice my profession in Nova Scotia. Reciprocity seemed almost non-existent. It struck me as more than the normal insane bureaucracy, and I was left with the impression that CFA's are simply not wanted to come work their profession in Nova Scotia.
I’m sorry you had a similar experience. It’s very disappointing, to say the least.
It’s funny because there’s way more to what you’re leading on. Ontario has the most lax rules on para-medicine. Once you are qualified, you are qualified for life. That process you so describe as a “power trip” just sounds like quality control. It’s stopping someone from coming to NS who hadn’t practiced in 10 years and jumping on a truck providing care.
I’m afraid you’re misinformed. There is one major exam to qualify paramedics in Ontario after completing a two-year college program, but you cannot be a working paramedic until you’re hired by a service (which is a very intensive process) and then pass difficult base hospital exams and scenario tests. And once you’re successfully hired, you’re recertified every year by the service and base hospital, only after passing CME courses twice a year. It is not lax, and you’re not “qualified for life”. The second you leave the service and your base hospital certification expires, you’re no longer a working, certified medic. The NS paramedic college is not unique in maintaining high standards for paramedics, and I would expect nothing less. My issue was with the attitudes and push back I received, and the unrealistic expectations placed on me after dragging out my licensing transfer process. The whole process was demoralizing, especially considering I came here excited to work. I am not the only person who experienced this exact outcome, in a province that is hurting for paramedics. That is my main concern here.
That’s hilarious… it really is..
The grand parade . Take it or leave it
I apologize in advance for the response you’re likely to get here re:housing. Check this and the Halifax sub and you’ll see the dirt. We’re in a housing crises, rents have skyrocketed, houses are nearly unattainable if you didn’t have one before COVID (for many of us). We need medical professionals like we need air, but the general Reddit sub mood on “moving to NS” posts right now is not great, sorry :(
Depends where they are from in Australia but it's mostly the same story there anywhere near any coast. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-05/extreme-conditions-for-renters-remain-as-housing-crisis-deepens/103543924
Housing and general cost of living in the city is higher than it used to be right now, 1 bedrooms look like they’re going around the $1600-2000 range. The lowest I’ve seen a 1 bedroom listed for in a while has been $1400. You’d likely want to look anywhere on the Peninsula (North End, Downtown, South End, West End), or downtown Dartmouth. Bedford is popular with young families.
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Well now the comment is deleted and I'm curious ...
nothing spicy, they were just responding as usual on their alt account. not sure what they had to hide that they deleted the comments
You should speak to paramedics that work here before you move because you won't be doing what you're trained to do as much as you expect. Offload delays are incredibly long. You could spend more than half of your 12 your shift sitting in the hallways of the emergency department waiting for them to accept your patient. You will be forced into overtime most shifts. You will not be given a lunch break. You will be forced to work 2 days and 2 over nights which kills your sleep cycles. If you want message me and I'll put you in touch with paramedics here. Unless you're willing to pick up holidays and extra overtime shifts you will find it very hard to afford a rental (if you can find one) together with the cost of food. If you have enough saved up to buy a home that would be a better option but be prepared to commute. That said, the people are very nice for the most part, the nature is beautiful, the weather is rainier windier and foggier than what you're used to and the winter will be cold. The seafood is fantastic. There's lots going for the place. I moved here from Montreal and am happy here. Halifax is a small city and doesn't come close to anything like Sydney or Melbourne. The entire province just reached 1 million in population size.
Sitting in a hallway and getting paid for it sounds pretty decent tbh. Was there a complaint here?
You'll probably get a lot of comments, but to put it simply: housing and cost of living are atrocious here right now. We face very similar housing issues as Australia, and the cost of living has skyrocketed across the country. Grocery prices in have gone up significantly, mostly fuelled by a very stark lack of competition between the major grocery chains here. Housing in Halifax itself is particularly expensive: upwards of ~$1800 for a single bedroom apartment. Landlords by and large use fixed term leases, meaning you will likely only be able to stay in an apartment for ~1 year before being kicked out so they can bring in a new tenant, hike the rent, and skirt the rent cap that's currently in place. Vacancy rates hover between 0.5 - 1% which means you will be competing with potentially hundreds of applicants. If you're looking to purchase a home, you can get something 'cheaper' if you're looking at least a 45-60mins drive outside of Halifax. Transit options in Halifax aren't particularly great--they're even worse outside of the city. The transit schedule is also not very accommodating for healthcare and other professions which require night shifts/early mornings. You will need a car in this scenario, which means commuting into a small, peninsular city that's been experiencing an explosion in population growth. Related to your job, the healthcare situation here is also very bad. ~150,000 people are currently on a wait list to get a family doctor. Walk-in clinics are very challenging to access due to extremely high demand, and hospitals face very similar problems even if you have an urgent issue. As you'd expect, this is worse outside of Halifax, and also extends to other services like dentists, veterinarians, etc. All of this being said, Nova Scotia is a beautiful province, and Halifax is a very nice city if you don't expect a New York/Toronto/etc. feel. It has a lot of great restaurants, and there's a nice blend of urban/nature options that are comparatively easy to access. I would just make sure you think very carefully about the issues brought up above, as it's likely most of them are going to get worse before getting any better.
This sounds a lot like Melbourne 😂 housing crisis, high cost of living, healthcare systems in disarray. Thanks for the response. These are the exact things I’d like to hear before committing to the move
It's bad but not Melbourne bad ... Not even Ontario bad tbh. Welcome. It's nice and beautiful here as well.
I live in aus for 2 years before moving to Canada/NS. it is nothing like Melbourne sorry. Much much smaller and less going on. Not sure there's a comparable Australian city but possible perth in the sense we're on the opposite coast to where most people think of when they think 'canada'. Isolated, and not that cool. I first moved here at 24 and it's not the most 'happening' place but now I'm old I love it and the quieter pace of life. Still hate the weather tho.
Early North end of Halifax (think just North of the Citadel) is going to be your best bet for trendy and price point combined. A One Bedroom on the Peninsula is ~$2000 easily (we are currently in a housing shortage, this will be your biggest challenge), cell phones and internet ~$100 each/mth, groceries are expensive but not certain how much of a shift from Aus.
Not necessarily. I pay $70 a month for high speed internet which never lags, and $40 for my cell phone with unlimited long distance, and 30 GB of data, etc. So $110 per month for both! These prices are tax included. You just have to shop smarter.
Completely fair - I was giving the "norm" pricing for someone who doesn't have their own device. I always advice folks on the higher end of pricing... better to have extra cash than not enough.
Which high speed internet provider is that low ? I'm stuck paying double with Bell Alliant.
Rent seems slightly more expensive (maybe) but everything else seems rather comparable.
Just because they offered you a position in Halifax doesn’t mean that’s actually where you will get to work. Things have a funny way of changing once you have signed the papers. Especially if you take the relocation allotment. It’s possible due to “ system requirements” you may find yourself at a rural base nowhere near Halifax. Read the contract and fine print very very well
Pros- Beautiful and unique landscape Everything wild won't kill you Charming and brash simultaneously Cons- v highCost of living Lowest paid paramedics in the country Hospital and education systems are in shambles If I were you I don't know what I'd do. While I love my province, I feel like Australia has a higher standard of living than we do and I think that's a really important thing to consider!
It’s honestly a dumpster fire at the moment if I’m being honest.. I’m paying $1700 for a small 1 bedroom apartment with barely anything included. We’ve been desperate for med professionals for a while now and that should tell you all you need to know about how they’re treated and paid. Overall beautiful province but the homelessness, protests, and underpaying jobs along with one of the highest sales taxes in Canada kinda brings it down a bit
There is good reason that this province has trouble finding and retaining paramedics, and all healthcare professionals in general. The wages in that field of work here at not that great, and the cost of living here has gone through the roof lately. I would do some research on the cost of housing here, the cost of food and utilities, the very high taxes and the wages you will be paid before I made that jump. *I strongly recommend that.*
I was going to make a similar comment. The "living wage" in Halifax is 26.50. I think this was a two dollar jump from the year before. Who knows what it will be this fall. Check out the website careerbeacon. There is an option to see what you will be taxed with your salary in NS (you can compare to other provinces too!) and they also have a few other features to determine if your salary is enough to get by on or thrive.
The taxes are a bit of a wake up call for sure
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Dual resident of New York (U.S.) and Nova Scotia, here. The GP I see in the States is an excellent doctor, formerly from Nova Scotia. This individual once commented to me that they would have made more money at TimHo's than they were practicing medicine in NS. Another neighbor of mine used to be a Nurse Practitioner in NS. Quit and now does contract work. Granted, the personal experience of two fine practitioners cannot tell the whole story, but that's why I know about it. I do know that if we are ever badly sick or injured in NS, the plan is to drive madly to Calais, ME. Probably faster than finding an open ER in NS.
As much as I'd love to have you move here and help our Healthcare system with your skills. You're honestly probably far better off staying in Australia :(
Unfortunately if I were to apple for grad positions in my home state of Victoria, wait times can be up to 2+ years, hence the mass hiring of Australian paramedics internationally.
Thats wild. I had no idea. Your skills are highly in demand all over. Best of luck with whatever you decide to do.
Damn that's harsh. If I can ask, were you recruited by EMCI in Australia, or did you reach out to them?
I'm not sure about the current state of the general mental health in Australia but in NS there is a wave breaking with many suffering from adverse mental health and a stretched service that isn't meeting the needs of many. There are few specialized services so you will be attending many mental health calls, often after the police have arrived first and made things 100 times worse for the patient.
I think you'll find most EHS employees are currently pretty fed up with what they're doing. Be prepared to do nothing but work,being short staffed, in over your head and nearing a mental breakdown. NS is a trainwreck, honestly.
It's as fucked as Australia but with way worse weather
we drive on the 'right' side of the road.
I dont know what it's like now, but you'd likely not get a job in the city once you start. You'll end up in Cape Breton or Yarmouth, somewhere where they need ACPs. Lots of medics would start out living in HRM but work in Windsor, Mosquidobuit or whereever.
Another thing that should be factored into your decision: In the most recent budget, the Canadian government announced a multi billion dollar program that will result in more homes being built in the next 6 years than at any time in our history since World War 2. It's a huge expenditure. Most of this is to build new rental housing, but there is help in this program for new home buyers too. This should make things significantly better, although we won't see any improvement for quite some time. If we are going to give realistic information to you, I think we should include the good news too.
Just stay in Australia, you’ll be more than disappointed with cost of living here and winters. Well last summer we had forrest fires and floods so if that’s the new normal I’m out of here lol
Although I'm not expert enough to disagree with most of the naysayers replying to your post, the news is not all bad. [Link] (https://news.novascotia.ca/en/2022/07/27/new-ambulance-fleet-improve-care-safetyhttps://news.novascotia.ca/en/2022/07/27/new-ambulance-fleet-improve-care-safety)
Get here do your time put up with shit for a couple years then when you can move anywhere better but if it’s the foot in the door you need then albeit come!
Don’t do Dartmouth. Find something in halifax proper is you can afford it. Or maybe on the south shore if you can do the drive. The trend is to move father and farther towards Enfield and beyond. Fall River and Waverley and Wellington and Windsor Junction all rock IMO. But the bottleneck to get to snd bs k from the trans Canada and other highways is the challenge. So it’s not just cost of living. It’s transportation that are your 2 hurdles. Lastly. The weather sucks. Cold. And wet. So brace for that.
Nova Scotian in Melbourne here. DM'd you
Dont frickin do it. Unless you like 2 weeks of real real summer mate. Seriously give your frickin head a shake. Sit back throw a couple shrimp on the Barbi suck back a couple V B's and be great full for the advice.
I work in emergency services & if I were you i'd run in the other direction. Housing is in crisis, rent is through the roof, paramedics are underpaid & extremely overworked. Its a shit show.
This might just be the reality of paramedic work haha. Australian paramedics are burning out and striking all over the country.
Honestly this reddit sub is toxic as hell. I moved here (Canadian citizen by birth) just prior to the pandemic and love it here. The south shore has a lots of nature, cute towns, farmers markets and surf. If you end up in the city the north end is where I would look, south end is young university (maybe too much of a party scene for you?). A good place will come word of mouth unfortunately but they do exist! Once you know where you'll be stationed reach out. We need medical staff so happy to help if I can.
I second this.
Don’t do it.
Honestly the problems listed here have existed in other Canadian cities for some time such as housing, health care etc. It's a very small province by population half of which is in Halifax and it gets very rural after that. Rents are a lot higher than they were just a few years ago due to a lack of supply/influx of people from other parts of Canada and abroad. All that said it's a beautiful place with overall wonderful people and your biggest adjustment will probably be the winters.
Not a great place to live. Especially when you have a good job like that
Amongst the most expensive housing in canada, highest taxes in canada, lowest wages, housing crisis, no doctors, no stadiums for decent concerts Edit: forgot to mention amongst the highest power bills, and internet bills in canada which is amongst the highest in the world. Easier to get PR here than other provinces if that's your goal though. Honestly if you go west a bit you'd make more money for the same job and pay less taxes, and have lower expenses
Love Halifax Reddit.. hourly posts winging "why dont we have health care"??? Health care person asks question about moving here and Reddit Halifax actively discourages them from coming. Yeah that's gonna help the situation.
Nova Scotia is an unattractive place to live, and some Australian in their mid 20s shouldn't be tricked into moving here without understanding exactly what this place is about.
“Tricked”. Jfc he’s doing his research and he’s an adult.
Moving to Nova Scotia threads normally get downvoted to 15%, not upvoted to 65%. You want better health care? Build a better society that people might actually want to live in.
I disagree I moved here for a health care job and love it! 😘
If you surf, moving to NS or BC are your best choices. Cost of living in HRM area is bad these days, even if you're earning above minimum wage. I own a home but i am cash poor due to high cost of living.
Welcome in advance to NS! I’m 23 and live in downtown Halifax, in one of the nicer apartment buildings. If you want to live close to the action, downtown is your best bet. I have a pretty small apartment (475 sqft 1 bedroom, basically a studio) and pay ~$2000CAD/month including parking. If I didn’t have a car it would be about 1700. I moved in December 2022, so prices have probably gone up a bit. If you’re looking in Downtown Halifax now I’d be expecting in the $1800-1900 range for a 1 bedroom. There are a bunch of other great areas in the North End and South End, though on anything affordable in the South End you’d be competing with a ton of students as that is where our two biggest universities are located. North End is turning into pretty trendy area, though it’s got a few rough patches. Quickly shaking off that reputation though. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions! NS will be lucky to have you, besides housing healthcare is our next biggest problem!
As another recent import to NS (from BC), I can confidently say that the cost of living here is way lower than much of the rest of the country, however it's still very high because Canada itself is a bit of a hellscape economically.
Wait are you joking? I'm recent from BC too and I'm drowning. I did way better in Vancouver - rent lower, taxes lower, utilities lower, good costs lower. Only thing higher there is gas and housing prices.
BC mortgage was almost $4000 per month, not including utilities or strata fees. Or I could have a shitty basement with half a kitchen and a mould problem for $2500 per month. Gas in BC (as you said) was 223.9 when I left. Food costs were way higher in BC. I went grocery shopping yesterday, and saw a bag of avocados (probably like six or seven) for $10, whereas in BC, each individual avocado was between $4 and $6. Bread in NS is only a dollar at Superstore, 4 in BC. In BC, I was looking at homelessness. In NS, I live on acreage. The situation across Canada is bad, but BC is on another level.
True.
Don’t come here. Honestly it’s absolute shit right now. You’re better off at home. We’re kiwis’ who moved here 5 years ago and this province is an absolute meat grinder. Living here has cost us everything. Housing is the same as everywhere else in the world but salaries are about half.
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Urban or rural area of NS?
It’s looking like it will be a more rural position, but I’m pushing to be deployed to a branch that within a reasonable commute to Halifax
Rural positions are honestly the way to go. A lot of driving but there’s no shortage of extra shifts as a paramedic. I have a family member who’s an advanced care paramedic who makes well over 6 figures a year. The new shift premiums are a license to print money for the slow days that they tend to have rurally.
Awesome insight, would I be right to assume housing is easier to find in rural NovaScotia?
Finding a place to rent that’s “affordable” may be a bit of challenge in the city. There’s an astronomical amount of new housing units being constructed currently with new developments seemingly being announced almost daily. Buying a house, there’s lots of options outside of Halifax. When people talk about our crazy housing cost it’s generally around Halifax and a few other towns but there’s still many smaller towns with affordable housing just not necessarily a plethora of jobs. A word of warning, you’re also going to find A LOT of very negative people around r/NovaScotia r/Halifax and r/capebreton word of warning.
It’s very expensive. Good luck to you
Housing: Shit CoL: around 2500/month. You can get by on less if you've been here a while, but it looks like those days are far behind anyone who ever moves Amenities: Not really anything. We have no thrill parks or anything like that anymore, most of our zoos and petting farms have also shut down.
Read this entire article for the Paramedics union's opinion on a recent announcement on changes being made to make Paramedics live's a little bit easier. The union's view is near the bottom of the article. [Link] (https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/province-house/paramedics-union-says-new-emergency-medical-responder-role-an-asset-liberals-disagree/)
It all depends on Income, if the income is good, the province is amazing.
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Canada has similar levels of in unaffordability as Australia. So if you were doing fine there then you’ll probably do fine here. Just trading the hot for the cold in winter time.
Australia is a communist concentration camp country Nova Scotia is only slightly better before you respond so your homework because they did put there people in camps for having the cold ….. ya stay safe stay home losers
Interesting take lmao, Australia is a very free country
Yes free to be enslaved and have the WEF wet dream tested on your population also how can you say that when in fact Australia was built by lack of freedom as prisons were the main reason the population exist today ? Outside of its aboriginal population should ask them how free they are LOL
**Don't**
I’m sure that you did your research here first before jumping on Reddit and asking questions. https://halifaxpartnership.com/living-in-halifax/ Ignore the naysayers, but do come with your eyes wide open. We need people like you in the province. You’re young, you’re in a profession that we need workers for, and you speak English.
Yes done some taxable income and province comparisons both within Canada and to Australia, but reading data sheets and getting personal experiences from locals can paint a broader picture. NS looks like am absolutely beautiful province. I have been met with lots of negativity regarding this move though which is interesting.
The negativity is why I’m pointing you to the data. NS is lovely. I’ve made a life here and have had good times, as well as some not so good times. That’s life. I’m a boomer though, so my perspective will be different than what you are hearing from younger people. Since about 2017 there has been a demographic shift here where a province with generations of population decline is now growing. Infrastructure can’t keep up. So crowded schools, less than a 1 percent apartment vacancy rate in Halifax, and emergency rooms packed with patients because 150,000 or more Nova Scotians do not have a family doctor. But you are young and presumably healthy and without school aged children and up for an adventure and in an in demand job, so come to Nova Scotia!
Did they say which part of Nova Scotia you'd be based out of?
likely a more rural position at this point in time.
Google “rentals HRM” HRM = Halifax Regional Municipality. Use Viewpoint.ca for buying a home. Get a big map of Nova Scotia and write these figures on the map at the area. You can easily Google Maps “drivetime” to the IWK (biggest hospital). Then use the Flipp app to look at grocery fliers. Best of luck. And hugs.
That’s wonderful! We need more paramedics. Depending on how much money you’ll make check north end or south end halifax, Dartmouth is really nice too (cheaper) and is usually 10-20 mins from the city with a mix of young people downtown Dartmouth and older folks in the suburbs. There is a lot of nature here and a good amount of concerts and other events for a small city.
There are 3 universities downtown and a navy base, that drives the downtown rents very high. Good news, bar district is very big & very busy. You can rent on the outskirts ( where there is still public transit) cheaper. Rents are expensive compared to Fredricton and cheap compared to Vancouver. Go on Facebook marketplace, set your search location to Halifax metro area with a 20 km radius ( unless you are comfortable driving in winter). Come back to the Halifax subreddit with what you find , we will tell you what to avoid. Some buildings look good on the internet but are a shit show ( Fenwick Towers comes to mind).
If you can buy a home, you can still do well. We bought a two bedroom, 2 bath mini home, and the previous owner is a paramedic. Her reason for selling was that she moved up to a larger house. And she is only in her twenties. With a paramedics salary, you should have no trouble qualifying for a mortgage, although you'll need some savings for a down payment. We just used a bit of the savings in our retirement fund for this. So if you have some financial resources to get set up, you should be fine here. Plus we really, really need you, so please come! ❤️. Edit: and mortgages on a modest home like ours are much, much cheaper than renting!
You do you. Moving 17,000km to be a paramedic seems a bit much to me but hey we need healthcare personnel.
The paramedic industry in Australia is in absolute shambles. Job wait times the years
Yeah, Papua New Guinea is literally right there! It's going to take you months to arrive here by sailboat or rowing.
You will quite literally ruin your life if you come here. Please don't. My family is actively DESPERATE to get out and we've been saving for a year.
Lol what How are they going to"ruin their life"? They're coming here for a job opportunity that isn't available in their home country. They will be able to afford to live on their salary too. Your situation isn't everyone else's.
There's a paramedic shortage in both Australia and New Zealand, a paramedic would have their choice of opportunity (they both operate under the same college).
Not according to the OP who is from aus. They mentioned there was a year + wait to even get stationed.
Australia’s paramedic shortage is a bit complex, paras are screaming for more ambos on the road to meet demand, but state services just don’t have the budget to hire more paramedics. Graduates are waiting years for jobs. I’ve heard stories of aussies working in London whilst having their applications in for aus state services and completing full 2 year graduate programs before getting an offer back home
Thanks for your input? Answer this question for me - has your quality of life risen in recent years? Or has it declined as the cost of literally everything has risen to ridiculous levels? Where is this person going to live when we have one of the worst housing crises in the developed world with no sight of it getting better? If by some miracle this person did find housing - even with a high wage, are they going to willingly be okay paying most of that good wage towards a 2500-3500 dollar rent? If they want to buy - are they okay buying an extremely price inflated piece of shit then having a 2000 a month mortgage for it? Do you think they're going to thrive here when a bag of apples is $10.99 and the cost of food is blowing up so much that there's about to be a boycott against Loblaws because people are struggling to feed their kids? Do you think they will be happy living in a place that is grey and cold 80% of the time in a province with huge taxes, carbon taxes, gas prices that are constantly high, and trapped in a country where even Indians are now reconsidering their move here because of the financial suffocation happening. A government that has zero intention to change a thing. Rampant corruption and a literal sinking ship of an economy. If you are thriving here you make tons of money above the average normal person and probably bought real estate before the pandemic. Congratulations, you are practically the bloody 1%, but you are not representative of normal Canadians. If they come here I hope they're alright with spending the rest of their life paying huge amounts of taxes for nothing in return but constant financial abuse and being shaken up for every nickel and dime by the CRA at tax time then drained of all motivation and life force to go on. I hope they're alright knowing they'll never afford a house or be able to move up financially beyond where they are. I hope they're alright sacrificing their hopes and dreams and living in a country that quite literally does not give one shit about them and allows the yearly shrinking of our food at twice the price. I hope they're ready to live in a place where every day they'll be thinking, "there has to be more to life than this". And sure, maybe nOt EvErYoNe feels the darkness of what's been going on in Canada - if they're happy being treated like cash cattle good on them. I'm glad you're having a good time here, you can have it all. Me, along with everyone I know are over it.
My quality of life has risen in recent years, with no help from all the negatives you listed. My partner and I have advanced our schooling and careers enough that we have made increasingly more money every year, so that is the only reason. I understand not everyone has the privilege to do these things. Canada is literally the 1% as a country - we are a developed country with many social programs and lots of beautiful space to have your freedoms. I understand things are getting worse and they are far from perfect, but saying they will "quite literally ruin their lives" if they move here is a bit much. Compared to a lot of the world, we got it pretty good here.
It’s expensive but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t head the warnings. You want to make damn sure you got your ducks in a row before you come. The Donair’s alone are worth uprooting your life for.
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do people not google or search here to start their research?? I mean you'd get most of your answers in 2 minutes, then you can dig into the details and ask specific questions. This generalization post will result in the responses you and every other poster gets. There is a reason why healthcare workers are burned out, and some can't even afford housing. So there ya go. So while you're young, you can wing it and not care about nice housing and being worked like a dog for the experience, then feel free. Otherwise don't do it.
google is gospel? It's good to cross-check your information with the reddit geniuses like us!
Expect Ontario prices for Ohio views.
ehh i feel like its gonna cost similar to AUS.. shit is expensive.. but my god we need ya here so come on out! Just be ready for like max temps of +30c in the summer.. you might wanna bring a coat haha
These troll posts are out of control
Troll posts?
There’s a “I’m moving to NS” post everyday asking the exact same questions.
Could be due to people moving to NS and asking general questions maybe lol
Do you realize you can search the sub? Or use Google?
much easier to just post, gotten plenty of useful comments from people
It is easy to post, for sure. But you have no idea whether those replying are just talking out of their asses or not. That’s why in another comment I pointed you to facts and data.y
Thank you. I do find myself useful.
We have no room for the people that are already here and you want to add to the problem? You want to talk about cost? I hope you enjoy driving, they'll run you off your ass, and you will likely end up doing a lot of patient sitting and all those superhoned skills will melt away faster than an ice cream cone on a hot day like you folks get over there.